About Us
Since our humble beginnings, ScS has evolved from a general home furnishing store to one of the UK’s leading sofa and carpet specialists. Our business was founded in 1894, in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, and our head office and first-ever store is rooted in the city to this very day. Over the past 100 years we have successfully grown our business through offering quality sofas and carpets, focusing on great value-for-money, and putting people first. We now operate 100 stores across the UK, from as far north as Aberdeen all the way down to Plymouth, as well as nine distribution centres and our North-East headquarters. Today we employ some 1800 people and we’re a leader within the furniture and flooring sector as a plc. ScS is a diverse vibrant place to work and we understand that our people are key to creating a thriving business. We are recognised as a 5 Star Trust Pilot company and the only furniture and flooring retailer with 160,000 reviews from our customers! We inspire and develop our people to be the best that they can be, living by our ‘Right’ values. With a wide variety of roles across our company, progression and opportunity is never too far away. If you share our ambition to succeed and are prepared to work hard to achieve results, then take a look at our careers site – we might just have the right role for you! Being such a large organisation we have lots of career choices! There’s opportunities for you to shine within a huge number of sales and operational roles, across an impressive number of stores, through to our extensive distribution network, support service departments and a range of Head Office roles that keep us moving! The frontline of our organisation is our store network of over 100 stores and concession outlets, showrooms that showcase our huge selection of sofas and carpets in modern surroundings. Every store has a dedicated team of people, from sales professionals to administration assistants, which help promote, sell, demonstrate and deliver our impressive products. Distribution means we can deliver on the promises we make to our customers. Ensuring that goods delivered into our distribution centres from suppliers are prepared ready for transit and shipped carefully and timely to our customers’ homes. It's crucial our delivery teams are friendly and customer-focused. They are the final stage of the process and in many cases a lasting impression of us and our brand. Our head office support teams do all the functions you'd expect from a nationwide business - from IT, to accountancy, HR to PR and auditing to marketing and plenty more in-between! It's a lively, buzzing, team-driven environment that attracts real talent and passion; individuals who can make a real difference, in whatever role they join us in. Our support services help our stores deliver an extended service to our customers. This means that whether it's an in home survey, making sure our products are the right size and can get into a customer’s home, or measuring carpets; our support teams are very much the friendly-face of our business. We need courteous, customer-focused and skilled individuals to help us deliver the promises we make to our customers.